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Mon Nov 10, 2025, 11:51 AM Monday

Deadline Legal Blog-Supreme Court denies review of Kim Davis' petition that sought to overturn Obergefell

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The county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples had filed a long-shot petition to the justices.

Hallelujah!!!

Supreme Court denies review of Kim Davis’ petition that sought to overturn Obergefell www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

Stephen Trumbull (@smtrumbull.bsky.social) 2025-11-10T14:45:07.808Z

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/supreme-court-kim-davis-petition-obergefell-same-sex-marriage-rcna242618

The Supreme Court declined to review Kim Davis’ petition asking the justices to overturn the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which recognized same-sex marriage rights. The expected denial came on Monday via the court’s routine order list announcing the latest action on pending appeals.

It would have taken four justices to grant to review. No justices noted any dissent from the denial.

Davis is the former Kentucky county clerk who made headlines a decade ago for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on religious grounds in the wake of the Obergefell decision.

Her failed petition sought to upend a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, which affirmed her loss in a civil case brought by David Moore and David Ermold, whose marriage license she refused. Successfully opposing Supreme Court review, Moore and Ermold wrote that Obergefell “was correctly decided, and there is no need to revisit it.
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Deadline Legal Blog-Supreme Court denies review of Kim Davis' petition that sought to overturn Obergefell (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Monday OP
What does the Davis case have to do with Lindsey Halligan? Ocelot II Monday #1
LOVE WINS, BIGOTS LOSE! The Supreme Court has REJECTED anti-LGBT crusader Kim Davis' request LetMyPeopleVote Monday #2
Davis is a deadbeat who still owes attorney fees from the first round of litigation LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #3

LetMyPeopleVote

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2. LOVE WINS, BIGOTS LOSE! The Supreme Court has REJECTED anti-LGBT crusader Kim Davis' request
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 07:36 PM
Monday


BREAKING: LOVE WINS, BIGOTS LOSE! The Supreme Court has REJECTED anti-LGBT crusader Kim Davis’ request to overturn the historic Ogberfell decision which legalized gay marriage throughout the United States.

They didn’t even bother to comment on the request.

Gay marriage will remain legal throughout the United States! A huge day for LGBTQ rights and a stunning defeat for hatemongers.

LetMyPeopleVote

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3. Davis is a deadbeat who still owes attorney fees from the first round of litigation
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 05:10 PM
Tuesday

This asshole lady needs to pay the plaintiffs their attorney fees. Even if the SCOTUS accepted this case, she still owes these attorney fees because they were in a different case and the judgement for these fees are now final





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